That sounds really interesting. Usually I hate books where the protagonist spends the entire book longing for something and the moral is "Sometimes you don't get what you want, and by the way you're nothing special." But this part sounds so up my alley:
As she grows more aware of her own shortcomings, she becomes less cooperative with her teachers and more critical of what she sees as the cult-leader status of the director. The director of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is clearly leading them toward a performance as disastrous as the previous summer’s legendarily terrible production of Oedipus Rex. All the actors know it, so why should they stay silent?
I was involved in several productions like that as an undergraduate, except that I was part of the cult so I went the entire way through thinking it was actually brilliant, and it was only several years later that I wondered what we'd all been smoking.
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Date: 2014-04-26 09:26 pm (UTC)As she grows more aware of her own shortcomings, she becomes less cooperative with her teachers and more critical of what she sees as the cult-leader status of the director. The director of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is clearly leading them toward a performance as disastrous as the previous summer’s legendarily terrible production of Oedipus Rex. All the actors know it, so why should they stay silent?
I was involved in several productions like that as an undergraduate, except that I was part of the cult so I went the entire way through thinking it was actually brilliant, and it was only several years later that I wondered what we'd all been smoking.